copying and pasting in exact location on other slides?

[Dave Leer]

I have a series of slides that I have already created. With the great help
of this newsgroup, I have created links to navigate amongst the slides. I
would now like to "copy-and-paste" the following:

text with transparent squares drawn over the text with the actual link on
the squares

I tried copying from one slide, and pasting to others, and it pastes into
the general area, though it does not paste in the exact location.

Is there a way to paste in the exact location on all slides?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Dave

I have done quite a lot of this and have always found that if I create a
rectangle with text (tranparent fill) place it accurately on one slide and
then copy it will paste to other slides using "ctrl v" very accurately
indeed. I have snap to grid / object off BTW.

 

[Dave Leer]

Hi John,

Where is the snap to grid/object option? Thanks!!!

 

[Guest]

Its in view > grids and guides but this should not be causing problems if the
original shape was snapped to grid

Are your links text with a transparent box over?

You can just use a rectangle. Draw the shape, right click > add text (type
in text) then set line to none and fill to 99% transparent (sometimes viewer
will not work with 100%) Make sure when you set the hyperlink that you have
the box not the text selected or you will get underlined text.

 

[Dave Leer]

It worked. I was trying to SHIFT + SELECT the underlying text as well as the
transparent rectangles. For some reason this was not pasting in the right
position. When I copy-and-paste just the rectangles it wored perfectly.

Thanks again.

 

[Echo S]

Perhaps your textboxes are hanging off the edge of the slide? I find that
when I paste from one slide to another, the object is in the exact same
location (as on the original slide) *as long as the original object is
completely on the slide.* If any part of the object hangs off an edge of the
slide, all bets are off.

(I also keep Snap To Grid off.)